Chapter 377: Chapter 377

Even though the Aurora Divine Hall was built upon a huge, precarious cliff, with the defenders strictly guarding the only path up the mountain, it could not stop the ferocious onslaught of the Sun Flame Guard Knights.

Heroic Spirit Knights are the absolute main force of the Celestial Kingdom Armament, even within divine forces.

Under the command of Lin Rui, over a hundred Heroic Spirit Knights had all their attack and defense attributes increased by 135%, and they were immune to spiritual damage, making them unstoppable.

From the start of the battle, they took only a few minutes to crush over two hundred defenders in a sweeping attack, leaving a trail of enemy corpses on the mountain path.

Lin Rui didn’t even make a move, and smoothly ascended to the highest location of the Aurora Divine Hall, escorted by the knights.

This building is worthy of the name ’Divine Hall’. Not only is its architecture magnificent, but crucially, above the dome of the hall, there is an enormous aurora cube with esoteric runes continuously emitting spiritual light pillars into the sky, full of mysterious charm.

Lin Rui looked at all of this and sneered, "The God of Light always likes to do these mysterious tricks. Always creating some strange light pillars. This time, I’m not in the mood to study it, chop it down for me!"

"Stop, you blasphemer!" A knight as burly as a lion, wielding a golden longsword, stepped out from the hall. His golden pupils were as bright as the blazing sun.

Lu Weite gasped suddenly, "Redbeard Roland Falken! Lord Lin Rui, be careful, this might be a trap!"

Falken gripped his sword with both hands, giving Lu Weite a frosty glance: "Oh? People from the commerce guild. You dare to meddle in power wars now? It seems your ambition is greater than I imagined. Rest assured, there are no hidden troops, just me! But the result for you will be the same."

Lin Rui glanced at the opponent’s profile: Roland Falken, Tier Six Disaster Level, one of the Grand Knights Commanders of the Holy Hall Knight Order!

Lu Weite immediately explained to Lin Rui, "Lord Lin Rui, Falken is known as the most exceptional young champion of the Holy Hall Knight Order. He once single-handedly massacred thousands of elves, staining his golden beard red, hence he is feared by the elves as Redbeard."

Falken rested the longsword on his shoulder, his face full of arrogance, "Good, you know my reputation, so I don’t need to say more. Will you go into the cages below willingly, or will I have to send you in myself? If I have to act, I’m afraid I’ll end up breaking all your bones."

Lu Weite’s expression was unpleasant as he stepped forward to confront Falken, "This is a grudge between the Holy Hall Knight Order and Count Frans. Why are you intervening?"

"Haha, how amusing." Falken sneered, "Do you think the Holy Temple Knight Order would still be attacking Count Frans if they had no contingencies? You don’t think Count Frans was the only one to seek reinforcements, do you? Even your guild is trying to interfere in this war; do you think the other forces on Dragonbone Plain will remain indifferent? Many want to tear apart Count Frans and divide his vast territory."

Lin Rui nonchalantly waved to his subordinates, "Go, kill him! If you’re interested in Count Frans’ vast domain, you should also have guessed that others will covet the Holy Temple Knight Order’s abundant wealth."

Falken immediately charged into the midst of the Sun Flame Guard Knights, shouting, "Just you, a group of Heroic Spirit level mortals, dare to besiege me! All of you, die for me!"

In the next moment, Falken’s eyes widened in disbelief, his voice of incredulity echoing on the battlefield: "Impossible! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How can mere mortals stop me?"

Lu Weite, equally astounded, stared at the center of the battlefield in disbelief.

Even as a merchant, he could see that Falken’s words were overly boastful!

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This was practically the Sun Flame Guard Knights collectively beating him up!

In fact, due to the limited battlefield, most knights had already withdrawn, watching the skirmish with arms crossed, like a crowd witnessing a group beating up a drowning dog.

Only twenty-four Heroic Spirit level knights were besieging Falken.

But Falken couldn’t do anything to these twenty-four Heroic Spirit knights; all the knights had spiritual immunity effects.

This caused all of Falken’s attack damage to be nullified when it landed on them, with only the sound of metals clashing harshly as longsword met heavy armor.

However, the Heroic Spirit Knights’ physical defense was stacked to the extreme. The Sun Flame Knight Order’s traits were fully activated, increasing physical defense by 50%, further increased by 135% under Lin Rui’s command, along with their heavy armor providing damage reflection, and strategic items granting over 50% damage reduction.

Falken’s output was almost entirely weakened.

The constant clanging of swords striking heavy armor echoed across the battlefield, but the Sun Flame Guard Knights’ life bars only decreased slowly; they were both tough and firm, showing no sign of danger.

But the damage they inflicted on Falken was different!

As a knight, Falken was surely both tough and hefty, but he couldn’t withstand the assault of twenty-four knights hacking at him.

Even if each one only dealt 0.5% damage, it would instantly add up to 27% of his life value disappearing.

Lin Rui’s commander trait was exceptionally suited to such high-intensity siege warfare. Each blow triggered Lin Rui’s commander trait [Frost Bite stacking 20 layers, freezing the opponent for 1 second, inflicting 15% ice attribute damage to life value].

Although this ice attribute damage could be reduced by spiritual resistance, his life value was nevertheless dropping at a rapid pace.

If it weren’t for his mastery of Holy Hall Element recovery skills, he might have been chopped into pieces long ago.

At this point, Falken could no longer attack and could only desperately wield his sword to block and defend against attacks from all directions.

He gasped heavily, shouting, "Lord of the Golden Pansy Territory, you have what it takes to accept my surrender! Dare to let me join your domain!"

Lu Weite skeptically dug at his ear, "Am I hearing things?"

Even Lin Rui was amused; he was saying the most cowardly words with the fiercest tone.

[Ding, a desperate Tier Six Disaster Level Holy Hall Knight is in awe of your strength and requests to join your army. Do you accept?]

Lin Rui calmly chose to accept, and Falken finally heaved a sigh of relief, sitting heavily on the ground.

He touched his head, neck, and heart in relief, sincerely exclaiming, "It feels good to be alive!"

He then began cursing furiously, "The bastards from the Holy Temple Knight Order deserve to die! They only offered meager wealth to trick me into such a dangerous task. If I’d known the opponent was a hero, I’d never have come, even under threat of death."

"Alright, stop cursing." Lin Rui gave him a glance and asked, "What’s underneath this hall?"

Falken immediately stood up, even a bit excitedly, "Lord, the rumors outside are true. Below here is indeed a Demon Prison, holding a large number of high-tier demons. Lord, with your commander trait so suited for besieging strong enemies, we are best positioned to strangle the demons here one by one."

Lin Rui raised an eyebrow, "Why didn’t the Holy Temple Knight Order kill them? Instead, why imprison them here?"

"Hah. The Holy Temple Knight Order doesn’t have the military strength to continuously besiege super-tier demons, they would incur heavy losses doing so."

"In fact, these demons were temporarily sealed using a legendary-level artifact and then transferred here. They didn’t have a good solution, so they used a shrine to continually sacrifice to their demon origin. But the progress is very slow."

"These demons are difficult to deal with, so no forces have really set their sights on here either."